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Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire. (Books: a class act).
Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire, by David Cannadine; Viking/Penguin, 2001, $45.
WELL KNOWN for his trenchant views on the monarchy in its years of decline, with Ornamentalism David Cannadine extends some of his earlier work on class in Britain to the janissary cosmopolis that was once the British empire. Now that it has ended up as pap for tele-visual nostalgia, where it is often portrayed as a Retreat for Gracious Living (which it surely was for some), Cannadine seeks to give us a view from the inside--a view of the empire as a social entity rather than a political construct (though that is pre-eminently what it was).
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